White House Office of National Drug Control Policy

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The Obama administration, already overtaxed with two foreign campaigns, made headlines this past week when the White House's newly minted director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy called for an end to the "War on Drugs." With support from the unlikeliest circles, this could be marijuana's moment By MIKE MILIARD | May 29, 2009

Question 2 supporters claim Massachusetts district attorneys committed “at least 15 violations of Massachusetts campaign-finance and election laws” in the runup to the marijuana-decriminalization vote. The political fight over a November marijuana-reform ballot question has sparked a Battle of the Bong By CHRIS FARAONE | September 24, 2008

When Rhode island voters narrowly approved a measure last November to allow felons on probation to vote, it marked an important step away from the kind of supposedly “tough on crime” policies that have long typified American criminal justice policy. Deficits and prison crowding propel the search for a more effective approach By IAN DONNIS | January 24, 2007